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Linux 2.6 Netfilter TCP Option Matching DoS

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Synopsis :

The remote host is prone to a denial of service attack.

Description :

It was possible to crash the remote host by sending a specially
malformed TCP/IP packet with invalid TCP options. Only version 2.6 of
the Linux kernel is known to be affected by this problem. An attacker
may use this flaw to disable this host remotely.

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